SECRETARY’S REPORT Gh 
A series of about 35 negatives relating to the Acoma, Laguna, and 
Taos pueblos and to the Navaho and Paiute tribes, made by Vernon 
Bailey during the first decade of the 20th century, was received as a 
transfer from the Smithsonian library, where they had been deposited 
as a gift from Mrs. Vernon Bailey in 1945. 
Thirteen photographs of Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Indians, 
including recent portraits of some descendants of prominent Apache 
personalities of the 19th century, were received from Mrs. Eve Ball, of 
Hollywood, N. Mex. With the assistance of Apache informants, Mrs. 
Ball also provided identifications and notes on several photographs in 
the Bureau collections. 
Copy prints of 24 portraits and views of activities at Carlisle Indian 
School, collected by O. H. Bakeless, ca. 1892-1902, were forwarded by 
Dr. Archibald Hanna as a gift from the Yale University Library, 
through the courtesy of John Bakeless, who owns the original prints. 
Eight copy photographs relating to Indians of Michigan in the 
period 1865-ca. 1900, collected from various sources by the Michigan 
Historical Commission, were received as a gift from the Commission, 
through the courtesy of Dr. Philip P. Mason. 
Mrs. Marion Vincent, of Sequim, Wash., lent for copying eight 
photographs of elderly Clallam Indians taken at various dates in the 
first half of the 20th century, including a portrait of old Doctor Hall, 
the boatmaker. 
Richard Pohrt, of Flint, Mich., forwarded as a gift eight photo- 
graphs of Indians of California and adjacent western States, made by 
commercial photographers about 1900. 
Six photographs of Seminole Indians made in Collier County, Fla., 
ca. 1900-1928, were received from Dr. Charlton W. Tebeau, of Coral 
Gables, Fla., through Dr. William C. Sturtevant. 
Two snapshots of the tombstone of Joseph Pawnee No Pashee, first 
governor of the Osage (d. 1883), located at Pawhuska, Okla., were 
received as a gift from R. B. Schackleford, of Pawhuska. 
Manuscript collections.—There is a continued increase in the utiliza- 
tion of the manuscript collections by anthropologists and other stu- 
dents. About 305 manuscripts were consulted by searchers, either in 
person or by the purchase of 9,696 pages of reproductions. In addi- 
tion, 68 mail inquiries concerning the manuscript collections were re- 
ceived, and a considerable number were examined by the archivist in 
preparing replies. As a result of this examination, new and more 
complete descriptions of 61 manuscripts were drafted for the catalog, 
annotations were added to numerous other catalog entries, and lists 
describing certain related groups were prepared for distribution. 
Thirteen lots of manuscript material were received in the archives. 
The following have been cataloged and made available for reference: 
